Sweets for the New Year: pechom, decorate, treats

Pechom

Many believe pastries aerobatics, which afford only experienced cooks. This is not true. The furnace can each. If he wants to! ;)

"What do you! I'm sure something will burn or crumble! "Indeed, the show offers a burnt cake or pie filling to escape shame. But do not panic! To surprise loved ones on New Year's sweets, do not necessarily have to be a hereditary confectioner.

We need only:

1. Simple recipes. Without multi-path combinations, water baths, caramelization and other scary words.
2. Handy kitchen utensils. The more you have assistants, the less hassle and more enjoyable process.
3. A positive attitude. You can not make a sweet cake with bitter thoughts in my head. If we decide oven, rather than buy, then go to the creative process. Turn on soft music, call a friend for help, and better bake with the children - it is fun and mentally.

The first two points we have undertaken - read on and go for it! But the number 3 component depends only on you.

Curd cupcakes with chocolate

Dessert in the form of portioned cupcakes - the perfect solution for the Christmas party. To save space on their festive table can be placed in a special separate table with drinks and fruit. Guests will be treated and, at the reception, take the treat.

You will need:

• 250 g flour;
• 200 g of cheese;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 100 g of the cream;
• 100 g butter;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 orange;
• tiles of milk chocolate;
• a bag of baking powder;
• vanilla taste;
• shape muffin;
• reliable whisk.

Curd is necessary to grind until smooth. This will require a convenient, netyazholy not slip out of hands corolla. Ideal - with handle of soft-touch-plastic.

Add the softened butter, cottage cheese and sour cream and whisk whisk again. Then, without ceasing to stir, enter into a mixture of eggs, sugar and vanilla. Orange clean, and its peel grate on fine grater and add to the dough. Re-mix thoroughly.

In a separate bowl, connect the flour and baking powder. Then sprinkle in them in the batter and stir whisk. Dough cupcakes do not need long to knead. Even if there are small lumps - no big deal.

For baking cupcakes is better to use silicone mold. From it much easier to extract the product. An incident does not happen when the tip pulled out, and the bottom of the cake fell off, sticking to the bottom.

Spread the dough over the cells form. Fill each about two-thirds: during baking cupcakes rise. If you fill out the form to the brim, they will run away. In each cell, slightly pushing it in the dough, put on the lobe of your favorite chocolate.

Preheat oven to 190 ° C and bake for 15-20 minutes cupcakes.

Sponge cake

Cake - King Family New Year's feast. If you've never baked cakes, try to start with a biscuit variants. In this case, you will not need to bake a lot of cakes. Only one biscuit, cut in half.

You will need:

• 160 g flour;
• 60 g of powdered sugar;
• 6 eggs;
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar;
• a bag of baking powder;
• cherry liqueur;
• Split round shape;
• separator yolk of protein.

The most troublesome in this recipe - separate the egg yolks from the whites. Break the egg and gently pour protein, trying to keep the yolk does not slip - long and nervous. Simply break the eggs into a bowl and transfer the egg yolks in another bowl special instrument.

With it, assume half the job done. Then everything is simple: add the yolks to the powdered sugar, vanilla sugar and beat with a mixer. Then stir in the egg mixture baking powder and flour. Whisk well.

Baking biscuit is best to use Split silicone mold with a ceramic dish company Lekue. It will extract the cake safely and easily move it to the tray for feeding. Do not be afraid that the dough drops through. It is excluded.

Pour batter into the mold and send it in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C for 30 minutes. Willingness biscuit can be checked by making a small puncture with a toothpick. If it stays clean and dry - the cake is ready. When it has cooled slightly, cut its long knife-sawing and soak each half cherry liqueur.

Gingerbread Cookie

What could be better than playing enough snowballs to come home brew of tea and drink it with spicy pechenyushkami? Perhaps only eat gingerbread bedtime cocoa or hot chocolate.

Ginger biscuits can be baked on the eve of the New Year. Immediately plenty to feast on throughout the holidays. It does not dry up and not spoil.

You will need:

• 350 g flour;
• 150 g butter;
• 150 g of powdered sugar;
• 2 eggs;
• 2 tablespoons of honey;
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger;
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon;
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar;
• a bag of baking powder;
• Molds for cookies;
• good rolling pin.

Kneading start with the dry ingredients. In a bowl pour the flour, powdered sugar, baking powder, vanilla sugar, ginger and cinnamon. All mix well. Stir the dry mix butter. To it was pliable, remove it from the refrigerator and let stand in advance for half an hour at room temperature.

In a separate bowl beat the eggs, separating the whites from the yolks. While only need the yolks, pour the whites but not worth it. Lightly beat the egg yolks with a fork and add them to the bowl with the dry mixture and oil. Send to the same two tablespoons of honey, the best liquid.

Thereafter Knead dough with hands until smooth. Take him for an hour in the refrigerator. After 60 minutes, remove and roll the dough into a layer thickness of not more than a centimeter. Not an easy task. It requires a lot of physical strength - you may have to bring to the process of a man. To lure him into the kitchen to help the original wooden rolling pin in the form of a baseball bat.

From the smooth formation of the test need to cut out cookies. You can use any molds, but it is better if they will match the Christmas theme. For example, such as a form of deer of Santa's sled makes a square cookie with a star in the center.

And such Circle-shape allows you to play with the size and shape: large or small round cookies, biscuits, crescent-shaped, with a pattern of dots or stars.

Cookies lay on a baking sheet, the laid parchment. Preheat oven to 180 ° C and thither cookies for 10-12 minutes. Not more! It should be slightly browned, but do not dry up.

The finished cookies can pour glaze of egg whites. To do this, the rest of us whites to whip with powdered sugar until white foam.

decorate

When the cupcakes, sponge cake and cookies are ready, you can start decorating. Decorating - this is the most enjoyable and creative part of the work on the Christmas desserts.

Pastry shops offer a large selection of decorative items for baking. For example, you can buy mastic and create from it a small work of art.

Also treats can be covered with egg or chocolate icing and sprinkled with coconut or candy sprinkles. About the glaze of the proteins mentioned above, and to prepare the simplest chocolate icing, chocolate bar required 2-3 tablespoons of water and 50 grams of butter. Chocolate should be divided into slices, cover with water and melt in a small saucepan. Melt the butter in a separate bowl, and then combine with chocolate.

To work with the glaze is convenient to use special Silicone decorator. Thanks to the replaceable nozzles dispenser on cookies, cakes and cupcakes you can draw anything.

Another way to decorate the baking - cream. Here is an example decorating cupcakes them:

... and cakes.

Here are two simple, but very tasty recipe cream.

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In any of these creams can add cocoa powder (chocolate cream will), as well as touch up their food dyes.

The cream can be applied to the cake and cupcakes confectionery syringe, but the easiest way to take advantage of silicone-nylon spatula.

entertained

Thus, the desserts are ready. It remains only to apply them nicely on a festive table. There are a few secrets.

It is not necessary to put the sweet treats on the table early in the evening. Adults will not want them, but they are only children will kill your appetite. In addition, if the room is hot, cream and icing can be melted - refreshments will lose a festive look. It is better to keep them in the refrigerator until it comes their turn.

Cake served on round for cake. Effectively, if it is transparent: all attention is to decor and your efforts.

At the same time cut refreshments kindly. This is not a wedding, and then, in the ceremony of cutting the cake at the table does not make sense. The preferred if the guest will be able to immediately step up and take a favorite piece.

Muffins, cupcakes and any other cupcakes with cream top paper frame "cups" and served on a special multilevel "whatnot".

Eating muffins and cupcakes as shown in the picture below. So you and your guests do not get dirty cream.

Cookies should pour into the basket, the laid paper napkins.

Do not forget about the table setting, where there will be sweets. Decorate it: Put a candle in Fine candlesticks, Make spruce composition, put a pair of Christmas-tree toy. Prepare dishes: saucers, teaspoons, dessert knives. Think about the drinks that will accompany the sweets.

If you plan to drink tea, you brew it in a large beautiful teapot. Prefer ceramic teapot: they hold heat longer glass. for wine or champagne should prepare the appropriate glasses. In order to maintain a pleasant temperature to drink, use cooling Case. It needs to hold beforehand in the freezer and then put on the bottle.

As you can see, bake sweets and treat their loved ones on New Year's Eve under the force of each. Simple and detailed recipes you now have. For kitchen assistants go on Enjoyme.ru. according to the promotional code lifehackerNY You'll get 10% discount for the entire range (does not stack with the existing store offerings). We hope this small nice bonus will help you to create a festive mood! ;)

New Year's sweet!